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Realization Quotes (page 96)

Jodi Picoult quote: "Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break..."
Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines. Jodi Picoult
Here on the coast of Normandy, at this hour of the morning, I needed no one. The very gull? presence bothered me: I drove them off with stones. And hearing their supernatural shrieks, I realized that that was just what I wanted, that only the Sinister could soothe me, and that it was for such a confrontation that I had got up before dawn. Emile M. Cioran
E. E. Cummings quote: "An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that..."
An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects E. E. Cummings
The real significance of Magellan's voyage was not that it was the first to circumnavigate the planet, but that it was the first to realize just how big that planet was. Bill Bryson
I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist, I am an accomplice. Helen Prejean
How fabulous down was for those first minutes! Down, down, down I'd go until down too became impossible and punishing and so relentless that I'd pray for the trail to go back up. Going down, I realized was like taking hold of the loose strand of yarn on a sweater you'd just spent hours knitting and pulling it until the entire sweater unraveled into a pile of string. Hiking the PCT was the maddening effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again. As if everything gained... Cheryl Strayed
A period of transition to a new quality in all spheres of society's life is accompanied by painful phenomena. When we were initiating perestroika we failed to properly assess and foresee everything. Our society turned out to be hard to move off the ground, not ready for major changes which affect people's vital interests and make them leave behind everything to which they had become accustomed over many years. In the beginning we imprudently generated great expectations, without taking into... Mikhail Gorbachev
Music really did mean something to him, he realized, and it always had. It called to him, although there were no words to describe what it promised. It was like a secret language he never forgot how to speak, a hometown he could always return to when he tired of what life was throwing at him. Tad Williams
Pablo Picasso quote: "Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth."
Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth. Pablo Picasso
I realize that for all my penchant in believing that there's more to the world than what we can see, that folk tales and fairy tales are based on real, if forgotten events, I never accepted that part of it as being real. Charles de Lint
...because he believed that if you wanted to get rid of a hole, you filled it. He had not realized at the time that there were all sorts of filler that took up space, but had no substance. That made you feel just as empty. Jodi Picoult
The first real terror struck him then, and there was nothing supernatural about it. It was only a realization of how easy it was to trash your life. That was what was so scary. You just dragged the fan up to everything you had spent the years raking together and turned the motherfucker on. Stephen King
Octavia Butler quote: "I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had..."
...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away. Octavia Butler
Jodi Picoult quote: "How many times would I throw this away before I realized it..."
How many times would I throw this away before I realized it was what I had been looking for all along? Jodi Picoult
In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recongize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her. This may seem like a ponderous weight of wisdom to descend upon the soul of a young woman of twenty-eight - perhaps more wisdom than the Holy Ghost is usually pleased to vouchsafe to any woman. Kate Chopin

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